It started with a designer asking how to explain to a client that web pages are not going to print exactly the way they do on the screen. What he actually said was that web pages were designed for the screen, and therefore don't print correctly (which is sacrelege), so he has been being yelled at ever since.
The fanatics loudly clammored that he was a prehistoric idiot for thinking that web pages are for the screen, and he should know that CSS can solve all the worlds woes.
The only helpful suggestion was that before a project starts, clearly ask WHO, WHERE, WHEN, HOW and WHY the pages are going to be viewed.
This is something that all html developers should be aware of at all times.
Therefore, you might also include this in your talk. Enumerate where HTML can be delivered (web, pda, cellphone, rss feed), who is going to see it (lawyers, blind folk, 6 year olds), where they are when they are using the site (home, library, commute to work), and remember that platforms/browsers always come into it.
Also distinguishing between dynamic vs static web pages might be useful. (as well as topics like publishing schedules, server load, replication and distribution, syndication, cms)
And from the cf-Talk list over the past few weeks, descibing the difference between web applications and web sites.
Just some non-html thoughts for html coders.
Jerry Johnson
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So, I have to give an internal brown bag presentation next week. It's
on.... drum roll please... HTML! Yes, I've been assigned the ever-daunting
task of teaching a bunch of well-versed programmers HTML. Despite the lack
of logic me giving this presentation at all, I'm still stuck doing it.
Since my entire audience has used HTML before and most consider themselves
intermediate or advanced in it, what should I talk about? Someone else is
doing a _javascript_ presentation later, so I can't really go there too much.
The presentation is 1 hour long. I was thinking:
* _Brief_ Overview of HTML
* CSS basics
* DHTML (not getting too deep into the JS side)
* XHTML
* A little XML???
If you all had to sit through an HTML presentation, what would you like to
hear about?
Robyn
Prevision Marketing
55 Old Bedford Rd.
Lincoln, MA 01773
781-259-5312 (direct)
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